Although virtually all psychological theories and schools of thought now acknowledge the central importance of the relationship in psychotherapy, the relationship itself is conceptualized in various ways. In The Relational Approach to Psychotherapy, a ten-lecture series presented in Zheng Dou, china as a continuing education program to hundreds of psychotherapists, Dr. Larry Hedges surveys a 30-year clinical research program into the nature of relationship based on the therapeutic experience of and contributions from over 400 practitioners.